Week 16, Question 3

My favorite concept from the semester was nonverbal communications in expressions.  This concept was about how we communicate through our expression and actions. I really  love this concepts because, as I said in a previous post, it is something I do in cheerleading. We can be having the worst day ever but you would never guess it because we use facials to play it off as if we are the happiest people in the world. (even when our football team is losing and it’s raining!) Also in everyday life, we can read the people we come in contact with just by how they show their emotions on their face. When you see someone happy they have a smile on, their eyes are bright and their cheeks are glowing. On the other hand when some ones crying we can see sadness in their eyes. Communication is more than verbal exchange of words. It is learning to listen to what their facial expressions are saying.

Week 16, Question 2

This class has been by far, no joke, one of my most interesting communication classes. I loved really learning about small groups in depth. I loved being able to really go out and put to use the concepts and write about them in our final paper. My favorite part of this class was our movie paper. I did my paper on the movie Mean Girls and it was so much fun! I loved that we got to look into how movies created small groups and how those groups can really influence a movie. I was torn when I picked what movie to do because so many of the ones on the list really would have been fun to look at and report on. I also liked how we had notes from you every week. That really helped clear up questions. The only thing I would have changed was I would have liked to see what everyone else was doing for their small group paper. It would have been nice to get ideas from others as well as just see what it is others are doing!

Week 16, Question 1

My project was on a gymnastics team that is working on being a top gymnastics club. I have been a cheerleader forever and it was really interesting to be able to evaluate a group of amazingly talented girls from a similar sport. I really did like the projects because I was surprised by some of my findings and how well the girls were related to many of the topics we had read about this semester. I think if I could have done it a little different I would have done something that had to do with SJSU only. I think (of course as a cheerleader) it is important to get to know what we have on campus and what small groups make up who we are as a school. I think the project was drug out a lot over the semester but still it was nice to know all semester long that this project was always there to work on. I would have liked to see what everyone was doing their topic on first to really generate ideas as well as bounce ideas and revisions off each other.